Dispensing device



Nov. 20, 1962 Filed Jan. 19. 1959 F. MA DAFFE R DISPENSING DEVICE 3Sheets-Sheet 1' IN V EN TOR. FRANK MADAFFEB (M A Mz ATTORNEY Nov. 20,1962 F. MADAFFER 3,064,860

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IN V EN TOR FRANK MADAFFER (M XM ATTORNEY States 3,064,860 DISPENSINGDEVICE Frank Madaffer, Erie, Pa. Filed Jan. 19, 1959, Ser. No. 787,539Claims. (13]. 222-153) This invention relates to dispensers and, moreparticularly, to dispensers for use on bottles for dispensing beverages.

This application constitutes an improvement over Patent No. 2,566,669.

The said patent discloses a dispensing device for beverages having adevice thereon for counting the number of drinks dispensed from thedevice; however, the said patent does not disclose a means to preventpieces of broken glass adhering to the device from contaminating thebeverage in a subsequent use. The present invention contemplates adevice which cannot be removed from the bottle and which provides ameans for preventing shattered glass particles from becoming affixed tothe device which might contaminate a subsequent beverage in a bottle onwhich the device is subsequently used.

In the device disclosed herein, an improvement is provided over the saidprior patent in that the present invention provides a means to eliminatethe residue of broken particles of glass on various parts of the lockingmechanism of the device which might result in nullifying its lockingpotential. Also, the broken glass aflixing itself to the device wouldbecome a hazard to persons who used the beverage dispensed from thebottle.

Further, the device disclosed in the prior patent may be tightened sotight as to burst the bottle on which it is used because of the toggleaction with which the device grips the bottle.

The present invention provides a locking assembly which will have aslight give and will not burst the bottle. The filter assembly asdisclosed with the locking device is so constructed that it functions asan adjunct to the locking factor of the device by abutting the shoulderof the bottle and it thereby provides an additional safety measure, thusallowing the dispenser to be turned an even direction without danger ofbursting the bottle. The mesh also acts as a filtering medium.

It is, accordingly, an object of the present invention to provide adispensing device which is simple in construcinvention consists of thecombination and arrangement of parts hereinafter more fully described,illustrated in the accompanying drawings and more particularly pointedout in the appended claims, it being understood that changes may be madein the form, size, proportions, and minor details of constructionwithout departing from the spirit or sacrificing any of the advantagesof the invention.

In the drawings:

PEG. 1 is a View of a device according to the invention;

FIG. 2 is a View of another embodiment of the invention;

FIG. 3 is a view of another embodiment of the inventron;

FIG. 4 is a view of another embodiment of the invention;

FIG. 5 is an enlarged detailed view of the locking lugs on the bottleshown in FIG. 4;

FIG. 6 is a cross sectional View taken on line 6-6 of FIG. 1;

PEG. 7 is a view of another embodiment of the invention;

FIG. 8 is a cross sectional view taken on line 88 of FIG. 7; and

FIG. 9 is a view of the pouring spout used in connection with the deviceshown in FIG. 1 shown broken away from the device.

Now with more specific reference to the drawings, the embodiment of theinvention shown in FIG. 1 discloses a bottle '19 having a neck 11 withthe upper end of the bottle 16 flared outwardly at 12 and a lockingmechanism 13 supported in the bottle 10. The space between the lockingmechanism 13 and the bottle neck 11 is indicated at 14 as the pouringpassage.

A dispensing device 15 is similar to that shown in Patent No. 2,566,669. The device 15 has a sealing washer 17 disposed between it andthe upper end of the bottle it} and the dispenser 15 has a connectingsleeve 36 attached thereto which surrounds a passage 16. The sleeve 36is received in an upper end 34 of a sleeve 31. The hollow threadedsleeve member 31 is fixed to the sleeve 36 by means of a pin 35 whichhas heads formed thereon and the lower end of the sleeve 31 has alocking lug 18 supported thereon. The locking lug 18 has keys thereinwhich engage splines 29 on a connecting rod 28. The connecting rod 28has an enlarged threaded head 30 integral therewith which has externalthreads thereon which engage internal threads 32 on the sleeve 31.

The lower end of the connecting rod 28 has a threaded bore 25 thereinwhich receives the threaded part of a stud 37 which comprises a roundshank having a head 19 thereon. The stud 37 extends through a bore in alocking finger member 20 and locks it to a lower end 27 of theconnecting rod 28. Locking fingers 22 are swingably connected to thelocking finger member 20 by means of pins 24 and the fingers 22 aredisposed in circumferentially spaced slots 23 in the locking fingermember 20.

A strainer 21 made of cloth, fine mesh, or the like has an openingtherein which receives the head 19 of the stud 37 and the cloth extendsoutwardly and then upwardly and inwardly to surround the ends of thefingers 22. The end portions of the cloth extend outwardly and flaredownwardly as shown to engage the inner surface of the bottle 10 and thecloth overlies the upper surface of the fingers 22 as shown. Thereforethe fingers 22 can be swung upwardly into generally parallel relation tothe rod 28 for inserting the device into a bottle 10. When the device isapplied to a bottle, gravity will cause the fingers 22 to fall outgenerally to the position shown in PEG. 1 whereat the device can betightened by rotating the sleeve 36 to lock the dispenser 15 in thebottle 10 and the locking lug 18 will prevent the device from beingunscrewed and the device will remain therein until the bottle it? isbroken. The strainer 21 extends completely over the entrance from thebottle to the neck thereof. The lug 13 has threads 26 thereon and thefingers 22 fit into the slots 23.

In the embodiment of the invention shown in FIG. 2, a body 116 of thedispenser is adapted to be supported on a bottle with a washer restingon top of the upper surface of the bottle around the mouth thereof. Asealing washer 131 is disposed between a boss and an outwardly extendingflange 129 of a cage 126.

A locking lug 111 has a lug nut 119 with internal threads 118 thereonwhich hold the lug 111 together. A square shank 117 is received in alocking finger support 112 which has spaced recesses 113 therein whichreceive fingers 114. The fingers 114 are swingably at- 3 tached to thelocking finger support 112 by pivot members 116 which hold the lockingfingers 114 thereto.

A fabric filter member 115 has an annular recess therein between the topand [bottom members thereof which receives the fingers 114. The lug nut119 is fastened to nylon cords 120 and is attached thereto at 124. Aspindle 121 is a generally round cylindrical member which is attached toa ratchet member 122 by means of a rivet 123.

The upper ends of the cords 120 are fastened to the spindle 121 at 125and the spindle 121 is concentric to receive the cage 126 which is agenerally hollow cylindrical member having a lower inwardly extendingflange 125a which surrounds the spindle 121. The cords 126 extendthrough holes 127 in the cage 126.

The inwardly extending flange 125a has spaced ratchet members 128thereon which engage notches in the ratchet lock member 122. The upperend of the cage 126 has the outwardly directed flange 129 which isreceived between the rubber sealing washers 130 and 131 and they arelocked together by means of a rivet 129a which extends into the boss135.

A spring washer 132 generally U-shaped in cross section is disposed in agroove 137 in the boss and the spring washer 132 urges a pin 133 to theposition shown. The pin 133 is fixed to the spindle 121 at an upper end134 thereof and a washer 136 is disposed inside of the spring washer132. The groove 137 has a recess 138 therein which overlies the springwasher 132 and holds it in place. 'The spring washer 132 can be insertedbefore the pin 133 is inserted and a retaining flange 139 extendsupwardly and overlies the groove 137 to hold the device. together.' Itwill be noted that the boss 135 is slidingly received in an innerperipheral surface 141 of the body 110.

The embodiment of the invention in FIG. 3 shows a member22 1 similar tothe member 121 and adapted to be attached to a dispensing member. A cord229 is concentrically fixed to a lower end 223 of the member 221 at 222and extends downwardly and is fixed to a member 2 19 which is similar tothe nut 119 shown in FIG. 2. The cord 220 is fixed to the nut 219 at224.

In the embodiment of the invention shown in FIGS. 4 and 5, a bottle 31%is shown having a neck 311 with an outwardly extending flange portion312. A locking mechanism 313 is supported on the bottle 310 and apassage 314 in the neck 311 of the bottle 310 indicates the dischargepassage.

A boss 315 of the dispensing mechanism similar to that shown in PatentNo. 2,721,005 has a hollow passage 316 for fluid to flow to the outlettherein and spaced slots or recesses 317 are formed in the boss 315. Therecesses 317 receive locking fingers 319. A locking ring 318 is receivedbetween the washer 323 and a washer 334. The washer 334 rests betweenthe ring 318 and the upper end of the neck 311 of the bottle 319. Theinternal locking fingers 319 are swingably connected to the boss 315 bya pin 320 and springs 321'are disposed in spaced notches 322 which arein the'form of holes in the boss A counterbore 324 is formed in the boss315 and is relieved to provide overlying flanges 330 having internalthreads 331 therein which engage external threads 329 on locking fingers326. The locking fingers 326 are pivoted to the locking ring 318 bymeans of pins 327 and the threads 329 are formed on the outside of thefingers 326'. The fingers 326 are received in spaced grooves 325 in thering 318 and the fingers 325 terminate at the lower end in'locking ears328. The ring 318 has spaced notches 7 lugs 332.

In the embodiment of the invention shown in FIGS. 7 and 8, a winged lugnut assembly 418 is threadably mounted on a threaded rod 428. The rod428 can be used in a device such as shown in FIG. 2 in place of thespindle 121. The rod 423 has external threads 432 which extend theentire length of the rod 428. A slot or keyway 429 is machined into oneperipheral edge of the rod 428 and runs from one end of the rod 428 tothe other. The winged lug nut assembly 418 has a sleeve 435 withinternal threads therein which mesh with the external threads 432 of therod 428. V

The sleeve 435 has oppositely disposed ears 436 which receive wings 422.The wings 422 are pivotally fastened to the ears 436 with pins 424.. Thewings 422 are machined in such a fashion as to swing upwardly andagainst the rod 428 but they will not lower past a horizontal planepassing through the sleeve 435. Welded to the outer peripheral surfaceof the sleeve 435 is a key .37 extending downwardly and then inwardlyand having an inwardly directed end to be received and held in lockingposition in the keyway 429 much the same as the locking lug 18 in FIG.1.

FIG. 9 shows a broken view of the device 15 which is like the member 21shown in Patent No. 2, 721,005. A cylindrical filter member 45 ispressed into a passage 46 in the device 15. The cylindrical member 45has a filter screen and cloth therein to remove any broken glass whichmay have entered above the filter member 45;

The foregoing specification sets forth the invention in its preferredpractical forms but the structure shown'is capable of modificationwithin a range of equivalents without departing from the invention whichis to be understood is broadly novel as is commensurate with theappended claims. 7

The embodiments of the invention in which an exclusive property orprivilege is claimed are defined as follows:

1. In a beverage dispensing apparatus adapted to be attached to abeverage bottle and dispense measured pore tions therefrom, a dispensingdevice, said dispensing device terminating at its lower end in a bossedportion having a hollow therethrough, the lower end of said bossedportion being adapted to rest on the upper end of said bottle around thedispensing opening'therein, an elongated member attached to said bossedportion and extending down into said bottle, a finger support attachedto said elongated member, spaced fingers on said finger support, meansto draw said finger support toward said elongated member and to lock itin position thereon, said fingers being swingably attached to saidfinger support and swingable outwardly and downward to engage the insideof 7 said bottle and means to limit the downward swinging of saidfingers, a flexible filter member in the form of a disk attached to saidelongated member extending outwardly and adapted to engage the inside ofsaid bottle adjacent the neck thereof aroundthe entire circumference ofsaid bottle, and means on said disk surrounding said finger, holdingsaid filter member thereto forming a' filter to prevent particlesof'glass from entering the neck of said bottle. 7, V

2. The dispensing device rectied in claim 1 wherein said means to drawsaid finger support toward'said elongated member comprises spaced cordmembers attached to said finger support and extending upwardly towardsaid bossed portion, said elongated member extending through said fingersupport, spaced openings in the lateral side of said finger support,said cord members extending through said spaced openings and attached tosaid elongated mem-v ber and adapted to be wrapped around said elongatedmember When said dispensing device is rotated. 3. The dispensing devicerecited in claim 1 wherein said finger support is attached to saidelongated member by a cord attached tothe axial center of said elongatedmember and to the axial center of said finger support.

4. The dispensing device recited'in claim 1 wherein. p

5 means to reduce the length of said finger support comprises a hollowin said elongated member, threads inside said hollow, and a threadedmember extending into said hollow and attached to said finger support.

5. The dispensing device recited in claim 1 wherein 5 said elongatedmember comprises a threaded member connected to said bossed portion, andsaid means to draw said finger support toward said elongated membercomprises threads on the outside of said elongated member engagingthreads in said finger support.

UNITED STATES PATENTS Senich July 30, 1901 McNutt June 4, 1907 LesnickSept. 4, 1951 Cornelius July 29, 1952 Lesnick Oct. 18, 1955 FOREIGNPATENTS Germany Mar. 18, 1932

